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Maryland makes huge strides in Advanced Placement

If you had asked Nancy Grasmick five years ago how things were going with her big, splashy Advanced Placement campaign, she would have said: Itâ??s not pretty. Maryland was expanding the elite program at a steady clip, pushing more and more high-schoolers into AP classes, with an aggressive marketing campaign that targeted rural and suburban kids as well as those in big, urban districts.